The Truth About Melody Brown

THE ILLEGAL CONSUMPTION OF NARCOTICS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES CAUSES HARM TO HEALTH, THEIR ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING IS PROHIBITED AND CARRIES THE LIABILITY ESTABLISHED BY LAW.In central London, in a small municipal apartment, lives thirty-three-year-old single mother Melody Brown with her seventeen-year-old son Edward.She works at a school, does not date anyone, has no relatives, is estranged from her parents (since she became pregnant at fifteen and left home), and leads a very reclusive lifestyle, going almost nowhere, not using a computer or the Internet, and devoting herself entirely to her son.However, three weeks before his eighteenth birthday, Melody meets a pleasant man on a bus, who invites her on a date and takes her to see a show by a famous hypnotist. By chance, Melody finds herself on stage as one of the show's direct participants and, under hypnosis, acts like a five-year-old child. Then the hypnotist snaps his fingers, Melody faints... and upon waking up, she feels like a stranger to herself.From then on, strange dialogues and scenes from life begin to flash through her memory, which at first she does not even accept as having actually happened. But now random names and city landscapes, names, streets, and buildings, objects awaken ever-new memories in her. Melody begins a search, and gradually, as if assembling a large puzzle from tiny pieces, she reconstructs the picture of her real life.Lisa Jewell is one of the most famous authors in Britain.Her works are acclaimed bestsellers that organically combine the best qualities of romantic, psychological, and urban prose, written with the subtle humor characteristic of the English and an ability to spin a plot no better than Agatha Christie.